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It continued for several minutes, and when Hartmut spoke again his voice seemed to have lost all sound, and the words came brokenly scarcely audibly from his lips: "And you believe that I that I knew it?" "I do," the colonel answered shortly. "Father, you cannot, you must not believe that, it would be too terrible.
The duke had promised him that his drama should be brought out at the Court theatre, and the princess Sophie had made a special point of taking the young man under her wing. The princely household followed, as usual, in the wake of their master, but willingly enough in this instance, for Hartmut won friends on all sides by his cordiality, good temper, and grace of manner and person.
"Oh, here you are at last," sounded Egon's voice from the door. "You disappeared most mysteriously. Well, did you find your pocket-book?" Hartmut turned toward his friend; he felt he must be on his guard. "Yes," he said absently. "I found it on the stair, as I expected." "You might as well have let the watchman get it for you. But why didn't you come back?
"You have a long walk back, and Hartmut is not strong enough for much yet. The physician was very decided about his not exerting himself." "If you only knew, father, how hard it was to be mistaken for an invalid when I am getting so well and strong again," said Hartmut. "I am getting strong enough " "To bring on a relapse by your folly," his father answered.
"Perhaps because they have that peculiar and demoniacal expression which is always the indication of genius. Hartmut has great talent; he sometimes frightens me with it, and yet it attracts me irresistibly. I really do not know how I could live without him, now. I shall do everything in my power to make him remain with me." "In Germany? Your highness sets yourself a hard task.
"No, you cannot wish that for me!" said Hartmut sadly. "This battle of life and death into which I go can ease my own conscience of a load, but my father and Egon will never know, if I live, that I have fought for my country, and the old stain will still be there. But if I fall, then you can tell them that I fought under a strange name, and am at rest, perhaps under foreign soil.
There obedience and discipline is the Alpha and Omega of all things. Will, have you never wished that you had wings?" "I, wings?" asked Will, whose whole attention was again directed to his bait. "How ridiculous! Who would wish for impossibilities?" "I only wish I had them," cried Hartmut excitedly. "I would I were one of the falcons from whom we take our name.
Hartmut clung still closer to him and his voice assumed its sweetest and most flattering tones, and the dark eyes were almost irresistible in their look of entreaty, as he said beseechingly: "Do not let me become a soldier, father. I do not like the profession you have chosen for me, and I shall never learn to like it.
"Ah, but you have repaid him for all his suffering," answered Ada, as she laid her hand on her husband's arm. "The world, too, has forgotten your boyhood's folly. That was proven by the words of praise and congratulations which poured in upon your father from all sides about his heroic son." Hartmut shook his head. "That was no heroism, it was despair. I did not think I should succeed.
With all his other cares he was secretly annoyed at the result of the production of "Arivana." If he had had any thought before of openly denouncing Hartmut Rojanow, such denunciation was now almost impossible.
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